The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-04
| Loaded Loaded Loaded
April 9, April 8, A pril 4,
| 1887. 1856. 1885.
Name of Road.
$500 23,956
Local and state Notes.

p A. Lynn, who hereafter is to be known as
the general agent of the Lake Erie & Western
road at Indianapolis, will retain his Office in the
Bates House
In the month of March the baggage men at
the Union Depot handled 7,s47 pieces OF bag
gage OF this number $40 were checked out
from Indianapolis proper.
D. ]. Mackey, president of the several roads
leading north from Evansville. Ind, spent the
Sabbath in the city. His mission is a matter of
speculation there is no road loose running
into Indianapolis that he can we'll scoop in.
There were transferred over the Belt road last
week IL. $50 cars. against $40 the corresponding
week 1856 Increase this year d. 1870 cars. Belt
road engines last week handled 638 carloads of
live stock, against 573 the corresponding week
1856.
r. S. Miner, general superintendent of the
Louisville, Evansville & ST. Louis road, has re-
signed. and on the 18th of this month takes the
SUPPLEMENTARY of the North and South Ala
bama division of the Louisville & Nashville
road.
The receipts of the Terre Haute G. Indianapo-
lis road for the month of March at the Indianapo-
lis station this year were the largest of any
month in the history of the road, exceeding
those of the corresponding month, 1886, some
$4,000.
The c., Fl. &. D. management say that they
will have the link of road. which is to be built
to connect the c.. Fl. & I.swith the Cincinnati,
Wabash & Michigan road, so far completed by
trains over it.
The five direct Eastern lines last week for
warded from this point 81 loaded cars, against
4.730 in the week ending March &c. Increase
last week 14l loaded cars. The five Western
lines brought into this station 5,l2O loaded cars
against 5,046 in the week ending the Goth. In
crease, y cars.
The c., T., ST. L. & c. Railroad Company re-
ceived on Saturday from the mandatory of
Barney e. Smith, Dayton, O., two new postal
carc of h,1ilH VIII m hn
the through day-trans between Cincinnati and
Chicago These cars are sixty four feet in
length, rest on six-wheel trucks, with a forty
two inch paper wheel.
The platform men at the city freight depots
of the Pennsylvania Company in the month of
March handled &c. 001, 500 pounds of freight
loading and unloading 2, 7O5 carson an average
of nearly 100 cars per day for the month.
This is said to have been the largest tonnage of
freight ever handled at the company's Indianap-
oils station in any one month.
Messrs o. D. Ashley and A. A. Talmage,
managing agents for the purchasing committee
of the Wabash Western road. give notice that
they have also been appointed by the pur-
chasing committee managing agents to operate
the Detroit, Butler & st. Louis and the Eel
River railways. A. A. Talmage is appointed
general manager, and will issue proper instruc-
lions to officers and employees.
Division Freight Agent Sweet. of the Lake
Erie 81 Western. has notified the manager of the
idchaWauna iaet ireiRHt iue tuat hereafter thelr
line freight would be hauled via Argos, where
the l.. E. & w. crosses the Nickel-plate road,
instead of at New Haven, as in times past. This
makes so round about a route that it practically
drives the Lackawanna line off the L. E. & W.
road.
The statement that the Indiana Midland road
| is to be extended westward from Lebanon, has
| brought out large amount of correspondence,
| and committees in efforts to secure the line to
| their respective points. Ladoga appointed a
| committee to inset General Manager Moore, and
| endeavor to Influence him to build there. Craw-
| louisville, Rockville and New Ross are also
working vigorously to secure the road.